2013-05-29, 02:00 PM
Dusk Wrote:I thought it was fairly obvious that we were talking about the "friend/relative/SO getting kidnapped/murdered and guy going out to seek revenge" trope and not the actual brutalizing of women.
And no, I really don't agree that the trope proliferates the idea that women are possessions. You see what you want to see. The example from her video where the bad guy goes "Now, I take from you" and shoots the girlfriend doesn't imply that the girlfriend is his possession. How would it be any different if it was his brother?
But that's the problem - it's almost never a brother or a husband that gets killed or kidnapped. It's never the wife who has to avenge the death of her son and husband. The woman is almost always delegated to be the motivator and the man the one to take action. As Anita said in her video, the woman is often just in the game as the motivator for the man to go on his quest. So let's assume that using that tired trope is alright, and it's fine to have a person die to get the game moving. So why is it always a wife, girlfriend or daughter? Why not a mother? Or a father? Or a brother? Or a husband? Or a son? Or a best friend? It's not that they use death as an easy motivator that I don't like, it's that they always use the death of a woman.
Quote:To be honest, most of the games she used as an example were pretty unknown to me. I'm a pretty casual game so I think that says something. It's ironic because I see people criticize one piece because never do girls get hurt. Not that anyone is wanting them all to suddenly die, but the entire crew get's beaten and battered while they remain virtually unscathed.
Turning off the comments is weak, and as an individual she doesn't have enough confidence in her opinion. She has completely exaggerated her "omg they were so offensive", every video on the internet that has some form of opinion deals with those comments, and she victimizes herself. She herself perpetuates the stereotype, then tries to make a deal about it. Now she has a bunch of people who dislike her because she's a drama queen. Hell I have some lame ass from 3 years ago send me anonymous pm's how my family should be brutalized because I thought his dark knight video sucked and gave him proper criticism.
She's a coward and just wants to be praised by biased people, you can't learn both sides of the argument, nor present one if you entirely ignore it.
Why is it ironic that people complain women in One Piece don't get hurt? Oda goes to the opposite extreme and often treats his women characters like princesses that can't be harmed. If there's anything that I would complain about in One Piece it's that the women are almost always treated as goddesses. I want woman characters to be portrayed as the same way man characters are - human.
And are we just forgetting that when she did her kickstarter people were threatening her with rape? That there was an entire insurgence of people that were absolutely vicious in their comments? That even now people flag her video to get it taken down? She didn't disable commentary because she doesn't want feedback, she disabled comments because there's an entire vicious misogynistic legion of turdlords that have her marked as public enemy number one. When was the last time you saw legitimate constructive criticism on youtube comments? Especially one that challenges social views? You want to argue her points? Then just contact her! She has a twitter right here!
I'd also like to see some specific evidence wherein she "perpetuates the stereotypes" or I'll just presume you're talking out of your ass.